Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

2018-05-25 Thread L3X1 en
From discussions I have seen on the en.wiki Village pump and various ANs, I believe the WMF has no legal foothold to ask another website to respect our TOU. > On May 24, 2018, at 5:28 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > > I find this rather disturbing that Airtasker accepts adds for people > wanting to have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

2018-05-24 Thread James Heilman
We have Terms of Use that require disclosure when people are involved in paid editing. Often paid editing occurs on obscure topics and we are unable to closely vet the volume of paid editing that is occurring, this means a lots of promotional content can and does slip through and make us look bad.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

2018-05-24 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
Shouldn't articles be judged independently of who exactly wrote them and for what reason? If an article reads well, has good content, is sourced, neutral etc, what's the issue exactly? On 24 May 2018 at 12:28, Gnangarra wrote: > I find this rather disturbing that Airtasker accepts adds for peop

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

2018-05-24 Thread Peter Southwood
In what way are they proposing to violate WMF terms and conditions? Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gnangarra Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 12:29 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

2018-05-24 Thread Daniel Zahn
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 3:28 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > Would it be prudent for the WMF legal to contact Airtasker > You might want to ask legal directly at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal#Wikimedia_Foundation_Email_Contacts -- Daniel Zahn Operations Engineer __

[Wikimedia-l] Airtasker adds for articles

2018-05-24 Thread Gnangarra
I find this rather disturbing that Airtasker accepts adds for people wanting to have articles written, on wikipedia. The person writing the add is asking someone to violate WMF terms & Conditions as you can some of the respondents are indicating that they do this regularly https://www.airtasker.c